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ColorOfChange.org today confirmed that six new companies whose ads aired recently during Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck program have pledged to not to run ads on the show going forward. The additions — Aegon, Ashley Furniture, Humana, Luxottica Retail (retail parent of LensCrafters and Pearle Vision), United States Postal Service and Wyeth Consumer Healthcare — bring the number of companies boycotting Glenn Beck to 62. ColorofChange.org launched its campaign against Beck last month after the Fox News Channel host called President Obama a “racist” who “has a deep-seated hatred for white people” during an appearance on Fox & Friends.

We now find out how many companies went along with Color Of Change because they were sooo persuasive, and how many went along to get in good with the Green Jobs Czar, because that Czar just went the way of the Romanovs

Beck program have pledged to not to run ads on the show going forward. The additions — Aegon, Ashley Furniture, Humana, Luxottica Retail (retail parent of LensCrafters and Pearle Vision), United States Postal Service and Wyeth Consumer Healthcare — bring the number of companies boycotting Glenn Beck to 62.

It shouldn’t even be up for debate anymore whether Glenn Beck is good for our cause. He’s great for us, and he’s right there on the front lines on everything that is getting uncovered. His style is a little weird, yeah, but who the heck cares.

The MSM won’t talk about ACORN because then they’d be dragged into explaining the idiot messiah’s lie about $840,000 paid for “lighting” (or whatever the particular lie was) to an ACORN affiliate for the get-out-the-vote (and commit as much fraud as you are able) work. That one little bit, by itself, made Watergate look like kid’s play. If they had to start looking at the totally illegal campaign financing through anonymous credit card donations on his web site (that we all know about, personally and directly) then the fraud is enough to warrant an immediate impeachment. The MSM can’t be dragged into that …

On the bright side, at least the MSM didn’t run tons of pro-ACORN stories. They’re saving that for the coming weeks, as the MSM tries to defend their unconscionable lies to the bitter end. But, the unraveling is building speed.

Beck can say some crazy stuff sometimes. And he calls himself a libertarian, which I don’t really see except for the economic stuff (seems more socially conservative). But he seems to have a knack for informal organization of liberal takedowns through his different media outlets. For that, I’ll give him a pass on the crazy.

Don’t you have a witch hunt of our CIA that you have to work on, trying to make sure that this nation is weakened as much as possible?

progressoverpeace on September 11, 2009 at 10:33 PM

What an idiotic comment. How is calling out your tin foil queen out undermining our CIA. Typical Con, you disagree with their backward ideology and they automatically brand you as hating America. Bush fooled us on that one, NOT ANYMORE.

They’ll keep playing those child fitness ads and the one with the teen girl that got caught up in drugs but found her way. Or are you guys going to start boycotting kids living healthy lives and staying off drugs too?

Fox and Glenn Beck will both be fine, trust me. He’s drawing 3 to 4 times the viewers MSNBC is, so presumably he could cut back on ads by half and still draw about as much revenue as Olbermann and co.

Do you actually think any president(lib or Con) will cut funding for a group dedicated to helping poor minorities?

You act as if ACORN is the ONLY group dedicated to helping poor minorities. It is not. And ACORN just got busted in D.C. and Baltimore. Besides, are not the group of Salvadorean girls who were said to be trafficked in the sting not poor minorities?

Do you actually think any president(lib or Con) will cut funding for a group dedicated to helping poor minorities? Dream on cons. Dream on.

Afrolib on September 11, 2009 at 10:39 PM

Wake up you troll. ACORN is not dedicated to helping poor minorities. It is dedicated to keeping the poor poor and blaming it on the right. It is an old practice called serfdom. And is currently practiced best by North Korea, Iran and Venezuela.

So he starts to turn the heat on one of your pet collectivist groups as a criminal enterprise willing to support child prostitution and sex slavery, and you hate him for it?
So you defend them when they’re supporting child sex slavery? Ergo, you support child sex slavery.
Wow. Liberals really do support everything that’s failed, evil, and wrong. Evan Sayet was right.
Seriously, this isn’t a game, troll. Your position is one that supports international child sex slavery. Think about that. Really – think about what you’re supporting. Go tell Amnesty International that ACORN is good people. Go tell La Raza that ACORN is good people when they’re setting up El Sal 13-15 year old girls to be sex slaves.
Man, I really feel even worse for illegal aliens than I usually do. You’re advocate to “help” them by turning them into whores.
Try selling that help to anyone from south of the border and see how fast they knock your teeth out. At least the Zetas and the Cartels have some sense of honor.

At last, a man who stands up against the shameless D.C. thugs. Forget all the posturing by so-called “conservatives” who find themselves suddenly short of testicular fortitude when confronted with the tip of a very dangerous iceberg; Beck wades in, unafraid, and we should all support him without reservation.

On the glorious day when the honchos of ACORN, the slimeballs in Congress, the shady White House gang and, yes, Osama Obama himself do the perp-walk as their multifarious crimes catch up to them, the nation will owe Beck a big-time debt of gratitude.

Are you? Of course we all know Congress controls the purse strings but the president ultimately calls the shots. Obama could arrange for Acorns funding to get cut if he chose to. Acorn did play a heavy role and will continue playing a heavy role in rallying the disenfranchised every election.

Wake up you troll. ACORN is not dedicated to helping poor minorities. It is dedicated to keeping the poor poor and blaming it on the right. It is an old practice called serfdom. And is currently practiced best by North Korea, Iran and Venezuela.

rbj on September 11, 2009 at 10:46 PM

+1

He/she hasn’t figured out that their plight is no better than it was since the War of Poverty began. And yet their “leaders” are living the high life, aren’t they?

Do you actually think any president(lib or Con) will cut funding for a group dedicated to helping poor minorities? Dream on cons. Dream on.

Afrolib on September 11, 2009 at 10:39 PM

Again, if you call helping setting up a sex slavery ring of children “help”, you really need to rethink your opinions.
Are you so attached to your silly ideology that you can’t see what’s in front of your face? ACORN was actively helping what they thought was a child sex slavery ring. That’s not a conspiracy theory – the video is right there. You can see it with your own eyes and hear it with your own ears.
If you think that’s “help”… imagine if your sister were kidnapped and given that kind of “help”.
Are you even capable of empathy?

It’s all cool – the MSM has lost all it’s credibility. All news outlets are known now for bias one way or the other. I still think Fox is a legit outfit because I’m unaware of them ever sitting on a story.

Okay – so once all news agencies are recognized by the American public as being biased. And once that bias (left / right) is known … then the game changes to one of viewership / listenership.

In that respect it’s Limbaugh, Fox, Beck, Hannity, et al.

Game is over for the MSM.

And history will show that they lost their cred when they went nuclear on Sarah Palin during the campaign.

The Limbaugh / Hannity / Fox / Levin guy have the credibility now – and the viewer / listenership.

Acorn did play a heavy role and will continue playing a heavy role in rallying the disenfranchised every election. making child sex slavery a profitable criminal enterprise.
Afrolib on September 11, 2009 at 10:48 PM

the president ultimately calls the shots. Obama could arrange for Acorns funding to get cut if he chose to. Acorn did play a heavy role and will continue playing a heavy role in rallying the disenfranchised every election.

Afrolib on September 11, 2009 at 10:48 PM

That’s what we’re opposed to, champ.
We like a President who works his appropriate role as the head of the executive branch – not a dictator in chief.

According to Rasmussen: “Just 15% of voters say they view the description of a candidate as politically liberal as positive, down four points from last November. Forty-one percent (41%) see it as a negative description, up five points form the earlier survey, while 42% say it’s somewhere in between.” So, apparently, it is true that you can only fool some of the people some of the time!

The tin foil queen even had the nerve to say on O’liely tonight that he is sick of everyone invoking race in every political conversation. What a hypocrite. Van Jones is coming for you Becky.
Afrolib on September 11, 2009 at 10:35 PM

Ummmmmmmmm, I’m telling! “Queen” is a disparaging name for gays, and you libs aren’t allowed to say bad things about gays….just like the white libs who you follow blindly aren’t allowed to even constructively criticize blacks….you know, meaning treating you like adults. Tsk tsk, Fro.

The only way to allow the good that might be in Acorn is to expose and eliminate the bad. As long as the corrupt is allowed to inhabit Acorn, it doesn’t deserve to exist. It must be revamped as an honest organization with intense oversight.

UH Yeah! It has only taken 30 or so years to figure these crapweasels out. Glen Beck is doing one heck of a job. Ha Ha Ha

I remember when Geraldo started doing investigative reporting in Cali with the farm workers abuse scandal. What was that 1972? I have been waiting for a man like Beck since that time. I hope we are not to late to save this country.